Lucid Air GT breaks the 500-mile range barrier in a 70 MPH test for the first time

The 2025 Lucid Air Pure was recently crowned as the most efficient electric vehicle by the EPA, with a battery capacity consumption rating of just 1 kWh per 5 miles of covered distance.

The 5 miles/kWh range metric is rather impressive, and beats Tesla's most energy-efficient vehicle, but that was for the lightest RWD model of the Lucid Air line.

To test how its heavier, more powerful 819 HP Air Grand Touring sibling will fare, the folks behind the Out of Spec review channel subjected it to their standardized 70 MPH highway driving test routine.

Needless to say, the Lucid Air GT did exactly what it says on its EPA range estimate tin, namely driving more than 513 miles on a single charge of its 118 kWh battery. The car was showing 4.3 miles/kWh efficiency when its battery ran almost completely out of juice at the side of the road.

For comparison, the 2024 Tesla Model S LR AWD gets a 3.6 miles/kWh EPA Energy Consumption rating on its highway test with the 19-inch wheel size that the Lucid Air GT was tested with.

That was the first time in Out of Spec's 70 MPH highway range test history that the team clocked an electric car breaking the 500-mile range barrier, too.

Lucid credits a combination of homebrew electric motors, designs with very low drag coefficient, and an in-house heat pump for the incredible frugality of its vehicles.

Lucid's CEO is even on record saying that it will take advantage of "distracted" Elon Musk to introduce new, cheaper models and pull further ahead of Tesla. He now claims that it will take Tesla seven years to catch up to it in energy efficiency with the current speed of its EV development.

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